1. iPhone "Clock" feature: as a countdown timer that buzzes after 1 minute, to see how many perfectly enunciated /r/ loaded sentences a 5th grader could produce. He loves trying to "beat" his own time in this type game.
2. iPhone "Notes" feature: to jot down 2 exciting blog post topics that popped into my head so I don't forget them immediately. I also keep a shopping list in the notes section.
3. iPhone "Maps" feature: to find a shortcut from a daycare to a client's home when there was yucky traffic.
4. iPhone Camera: to record a "movie" that a student wrote about Michelle Garcia Winner's social skills superhero, "Superflex"
5. iPad with Google Forms: to record individual student data from a reading comprehension collaborative group. The cool thing is that this Google form just asks me a few multiple choice questions and then uploads my responses into a spreadsheet that keeps track of the student's performance on each goal for each date. This process is so exciting for organizing my therapy data that it deserves its own blog post. (Let me just jot that idea into my iPhone notes section. Done.)
6. iPad Toy Story Book App: to motivate a 3rd grader with autism to identify narrative structure elements and write them into a graphic organizer in complete sentences with punctuation and temporal markers. Kids will write anything for me if I make it engaging enough.
7. iPhone as a calculator: several times each day to calculate accuracy percentages for my speech therapy clients during therapy.
8. iPad Math Pop App: to encourage two students with social skills goals to work together to solve problems and to take turns quickly and automatically.
9. iPad Zoola Lite App: as quick photo references of a variety of animals for a lesson in using "descriptors"/adjectives in writing
10. iPad Cupcake Matching app: as a reinforcer for a student for 2 minutes at the end of a productive therapy session
The funny thing is, that I think I only used my iPhone as a "phone" maybe 4 times this whole week! Hah!
I really don't know how I got along before touch screen technology. It can be daunting at first, but ultimately, it makes me happy to master new technology.
How has technology made your life easier?
